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Psychologist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ulric Neisser | Father of cognitive psychology; studied thinking and informational processing |
| Wolfgang Kohler | Gestalt Psychology; insight learning (aha moment) |
| Alfred Binet | Developed first IQ test; mental age concept |
| David Wechsler | WAIS and WISC intelligence tests; widely used IQ scales |
| Gordon Allport | Trait theory; cardinal, central, and secondary traits |
| Hans Eysenck | PEN model of personality; psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism |
| Albert Bandura | Social learning theory; modeling, observational learning, bobo doll, self-efficacy |
| Elizabeth Loftus | Memory Researcher; misinformation effect; false memories; unreliable eyewitness testimony |
| Max Wertheimer | Founder of Gestalt Psychology; whole > parts in perception |
| Kurt Koffka | Gestalt psychology; perception and Gestalt principles |
| Hans Selye | General Adaption Syndrome; stages of stress (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) |
| Martin Seligman | Learned helplessness; founder of positive psychology |
| Leon Festinger | Cognitive Dissonance; discomfort when beliefs conflict with actions |
| Sigmund Freud | Father of psychoanalysis; unconscious mind, id/ego/superego, defense mechanisms |
| Carl Jung | Psychodynamic; collective unconscious, archetypes, introversion vs. extroversion. |
| Alfred Adler | Psychodynamic; inferiority complex, striving for superiority. |
| Carl Rogers | Humanistic; client centered therapy, unconditional positive regard, empathy, genuiness |
| Abraham Maslow | Humanistic; hierarchy of needs, self actualization. |
| Ivan Pavlov | Classical conditioning; learning through pairing stimuli (Dog, Bell, Salivation) |
| John B. Watson | Behavioralist; Little Albert; conditioned emotional responses; fear learning. |
| B.F Skinner | Operant conditioning; reinforcement, punishment, Skinner box, behavior shaped by consequences |
| Edward Thorndike | Law of effect; behavior followed by rewards is repeated |
| George Miller | Cognitive psychology; working memory capacity 7 + or - 2) |
| Erik Erikson | 8 psychosocial stages; identity development across lifespan (intimacy, generativity, integrity) |
| Raymond Cattell | 16 Personality Factors (16PF); trait analysis |